QUOTE(Bizquick @ Dec 17 2005, 08:21 AM)
I know we should be talking about something postive about this. But I'm having trouble with this Idea of all these add on's they keep thinking of ( M$ ). One thing I don't like is you can monitor and track everything someone is doing on XBL 360. So now your going to add tracking conversations between players. What if your at work testing XBL stuff. Your boss is going to see if you talked to you son or brother or mom or friend on MSN messenger while testing. what do you think your boss is going to say? I mean over here in the US we don't record our phone calls underless a message is played and its posted everywhere. but this is XBL they don't make these kinds of signs and if they do its not explaining the full information. Just a Generic message saying we record content. I just wonder is M$'s goal is to try to get all the people in the world addicted to all these addon's and software. that someday he is going to charge all this money and it be a requirement. I also secertly think he is trying to get the launch codes for all country's WMD piles and hold every country hostage to his software. but that would be very diffcult to do.
you do have a very good point, and i agree it to a certain extent.
but i belive the reason why m$ is devoloping all these add-ons is becasue people want it.
in this case, people are saying 'theres a messaging service on live, and one for the pc. m$ makes both of them, why cant you tie them in together?'
i would expect that there are more add-ons in the pipeline, and in the end, the consumer will win. if you dont liek a feature, then you do not have to use it.
and besides, with all the editing of code that m$ will have to do, there may be more back-doors into the software that can be found.